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Save up to $50 with online registration for the SPRING ICE BREAKER (March 19-21st)! Click here to get started.
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Welcome to..... RCS SPORTS.com
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RCS SPORTS is absolutely, positively, without a doubt - the #1 info source of Greater Houston Boys Basketball (year round). Check out the VIP ROOM for today's latest news. Thanks for all your support and motivation!
Be sure to watch Jim Hicks (RCS Sports) weekly...
"HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS LIVE" airs every Saturday (5pm), Sunday (3pm), and Monday (8pm) on Houston's Ch. 55. Jim's segment airs during the second half of the hour long program. Be sure to watch!
"THE BASKETBALL SHOW.com" (LIVE - SPECIAL DAY - MONDAY. FEB 15th @ 9pm). Watch Jim on the nation's first live high school basketball internet tv call in talk show!
MARCH 19-21st: RCS SPORTS 9th ANNUAL SPRING ICE BREAKER
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| Mark your calendars for the wknd after the boys UIL State Tourney!
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Registration is now underway for the nation's largest non tournament (held the wkend after the UIL State Tournament).
Sites: Reagan HS, Washington HS, Lutheran North HS, and St Pius X HS
DIVISIONS: (Boys / Girls) 14s, 15s, 16s, 17s, High School teams, Unsigned Seniors
Click handout below to print your TEAM REGISTRATION FORM
Handout:
2010 SIB reg form Updated!
Tuesday, February 9
THIS WEEK'S TOP GAMES TO SEE
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| Yates HS feat. Snap Peters return to action Wed!
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WEDNESDAY, FEB 10th
| TIME |
WEDNESDAY GAMES |
RCS PREDICTION |
| 4:30 |
Bellaire / Sam Houston @ Butler |
Bellaire by 34 |
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Sharpstown / Reagan @ Delmar |
Sharpstown by 2 |
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Jones / Worthing @ Barnett |
Jones by 7 |
| 6pm |
Sterling / Kashmere @ Barnett |
Sterling by 10 |
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Wheatley / Washington @ Delmar |
Wheatley by 12 |
| 7:30 |
Yates / Waltrip @ Delmar |
Yates by 32 |
TUESDAY, FEB 9TH
| TIME |
TUESDAY GAMES |
RCS PREDICTION |
| 5:30 |
Marshall / Travis @ Wheeler |
Marshall by 2 |
| 7pm |
Bush / Dulles @ Wheeler |
Bush by 3 |
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Clear Lake @ Galveston Ball |
Ball by 5 |
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Kingwood @ Atascocita |
Kingwood by 7 |
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Strake Jesuit @ Hastings |
Strake by 3 |
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College Park @ Lufkin |
College Park by 2 |
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Klein @ Spring |
Spring by 4 |
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PA Memorial @ Westbrook |
PA Memorial by 9 |
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Clear Creek @ Clear Brook |
Creek by 5 |
| 7:30 |
Kingwood Park @ CE King |
Kingwood Pk by 1 |
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Friendswood @ LaMarque |
LaMarque by 12 |
MONDAY RESULTS!
| Madison 64 Lamar 52 |
Madison by 6 |
WEDNESDAY 9pm-11pm! THE BASKETBALL SHOW.com (click here to watch archive)
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THE BASKETBALL SHOW.com! Call into the studio 713-944-2269
TheBasketballShow.com will return to the airwaves - Wednesday 9-11pm LIVE ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN! Hosted by Jim Hicks (Rcs Sports) and Terry Burdick (Houston Sports).
The LIVE phone lines will be open for you to help make the show a complete success.
Plus, some lucky fan will get a FREE cell phone and cell phone service (provided by Boost Mobile).
Wednesday night 9-11pm. Set your phone clocks and here's the link so you won't miss out www.TheBasketballShow.com !
Call into the studio hotline: 713-944-2269
Tuesday, February 2
NCAA ATTEMPTS TO CRACK WHIP AT RECRUITING!
By: Jim Hicks (Rcs Sports)
Below is the new legislation/interpretations that are currently in effect for Division I men’s basketball as it relates to camp employment, non-coaching staff hires and scouting services.
Among the proposals that passed included the practice of colleges hiring summer / high school coaches to work their camps. Also voted into legislation was the practice of hiring summer / high school coaches affiliated with recruits into non-coaching positions within a college staff. For example, a prospect is gifted in basketball, a particular college may not hire his summer or high school coach as let's say, director of basketball operations or video cordinator within a designated two year window. One proposed rule has virtually the entire nation of summer coaches shaking in their boots ending up getting scrapped. If the NCAA would have had their way, colleges would have been prevented from subscribing to any recruiting service operated by a person defined as being associated with a student athlete (see below). This would have included summer and high school coaches (yes, there are a few high school coaches who generate services. Instead, the rule (had it passed) would have put the NCAA in a lawsuit provoking position. Meaning, in America there a laws in place which protect citizens from being denied a right to make a living. However, all recruiting services must do a heck of a lot more than slap a list of names (with numbers to the left of them) on a couple sheets of paper. Many college basketball departments will be audited, unannounced and the NCAA promises to keep a close eye to the peephole that leads into a very cloudy room of recruiting.
INDIVIDUAL ASSOCIATED WITH A PROSPECT
Any person who maintains (or directs others to maintain) contact with the prospective student-athlete, the prospective student-athlete’s relatives or legal guardians, or coaches at any point during the prospective student-athlete’s participation in basketball, and whose contact is directly or indirectly related to the prospective student-athlete’s:
a. Athletic skills and abilities; or
b. Recruitment by or enrollment in an NCAA institution.
This definition includes, but is not limited to, parents, legal guardians, handlers, personal trainers, coaches. An individual who meets the definition of an individual associated with a prospect retains that status during the enrollment of that prospect at that institution.
CAMP EMPLOYMENT
It is not permissible for an institution or men’s basketball staff member to employ (i.e., volunteer or paid) an individual associated with a recruited prospective student-athlete at the institution’s or men’s basketball staff member’s camp or clinic.
NONCOACHING STAFF HIRING PRACTICES
During a two-year period prior or subsequent to the anticipated or actual enrollment of a prospective student-athlete, an institution may not employ an individual associated with a prospective student-athlete in any athletics department noncoaching staff position (i.e., video coordinator, administrative staff). Under this legislation, an institution may choose to make the hire or secure the enrollment of the prospect, but both may not occur.
SCOUTING SERVICES
An institution may subscribe to a recruiting or scouting service involving prospective student-athletes, provided the institution does not purchase more than one annual subscription to a particular service and the service:
(Adopted: 1/1/02, Revised: 1/16/10)
(a) Is made available to all institutions desiring to subscribe and at the same fee rate for all subscribers;
(b) Publicly identifies all applicable rates;
(c) Disseminates information (e.g., reports, profiles) about prospective student-athletes at least 4 times per calendar year;
(d) Publicly identifies the geographical scope of the service (e.g., local, regional, national) and reflects broad-based coverage of the geographical area in the information it disseminates;
(e) Provides analysis in the information it disseminates beyond demographic information or rankings of prospective student-athletes;
(f) Provides access to samples or previews of the information it disseminates prior to purchase of a subscription; and
(g) Provides video that is restricted to regularly scheduled (regular season) high school, preparatory school or two-year college contests and for which the institution made no prior arrangements for recording. (Note: This provision (g) is applicable only if the subscription includes video services.) |
SUPPORT HS BASKETBALL: GET YOUR COPY OF Da MAGAZINE!
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| Da Mag will also be available at various gyms!
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RANKINGS, ROSTERS, DISTRICT SCHEDULES, PREVIEWS, ARTICLES, COLLEGE SCHEDULES, and a list of every single Texas product who is currently playing on a D1 ROSTER nationally.
"Da Magazine" (our largest edition ever - over 100 pgs) is on the shelves at over 20 area Border's, Barnes & Nobles, and Waldenbook Stores.
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| Barnes & Noble |
Deer Brook Mall |
281-540-3060 |
| Waldenbooks |
Willowbrook Mall (next to Macy's) |
281-469-1901 |
| NORTHWEST |
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| Waldenbooks |
Northwest Mall |
SOLD OUT |
| Barnes & Noble |
7026 Hwy 6 (Copperfield) |
281-861-6842 |
| CENTRAL HOUSTON |
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| Barnes & Noble |
2030 W. Gray (@ Shepard) |
713-522-8571 |
| Barnes & Noble |
3003 W. Holcomb (@ Buffalo Spdwy) |
713-349-0050 |
| Waldenbooks |
1200 McKinney (Houston Center) |
713-951-0041 |
| SOUTHWEST |
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| Barnes & Noble |
5000 Westheimer (in Grand Lux pkng lot) |
713-629-8828 |
| Barnes & Noble |
7626 Westheimer (@ Hillcroft) |
713-783-6016 |
| Border's |
Galleria Mall |
713-960-0619 |
| Border's |
3025 Kirby @ S. Alabama |
713-524-0200 |
| Border's |
Meyerland Plaza |
713-661-2888 |
| WEST HOUSTON |
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| Barnes & Noble |
2450 Hwy 6 (West Oaks) |
281-293-8699 |
| Barnes & Noble |
5303 FM 1960 (@ Champions) |
281-631-0681 |
| Border's |
12850 Memorial Dr (Town & Country) |
713-465-5616 |
| SOUTHEAST HOUSTON |
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| Border's |
Baybrook Mall |
281-338-9390 |
| STAFFORD / SUGARLAND |
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| Border's |
12788 Fountain Lake (in Razoo's pkng lot) |
281-240-6666 |
| TEXAS CITY / GALVESTON |
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| Waldenbooks |
Mall of Mainland (Tx City/ Galveston) |
409-986-7743 |
| BAYTOWN |
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| Waldenbooks |
San Jacinto Mall |
281-421-2534 |
| THE WOODLANDS |
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| Barnes & Noble |
Woodlands Mall (across from PF Chang's) |
281-465-8744 |
| Border's |
9595 Six Pines Rd, Ste 400 |
832-585-0051 |
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